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Keeping Step with Parkinson's: Balance, Posture and Gait

September 21, 2017

This is a popular webinar on managing gait and balance dysfunction that we replayed from our archives.


Webinar Details

Date:

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Duration:

1 hr

Time:

12:00 pm ET

  • MJFF offers Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit for practicing health care professionals for each Third Thursday Webinar. Click the link in the Resource List after viewing the webinar to take the post-test survey and receive your CME credit.

    Reviewed for Re-release: August 24, 2017
    Date of Original Release: November 19, 2015
    Date Credit Expires: September 21, 2019

    Learning Objectives

    At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to: 

    1. Describe the posture and gait disturbances that can be associated with Parkinson's disease. 
    2. Explain how postural instability and gait difficulty don't typically respond to dopaminergic therapies.
    3. Discuss the connection between cognition and postural stability and gait. 
    4. Identify management strategies to target postural instability and gait disturbances. 
    5. Recognize ongoing research toward treatments for postural instability and gait difficulty in Parkinson's disease.
    Target Audience

    This educational activity is designed for primary care physicians, family practice physicians, general medicine physicians, geriatricians, general neurologists, movement disorder specialists and any other health care practitioners who manage patients with Parkinson's disease.

    Accreditation

    This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Oakstone Publishing, LLC and The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. The Oakstone Publishing, LLC is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    Oakstone Publishing, LLC designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    Disclosure

    Oakstone Publishing, LLC has assessed conflict of interest with its faculty, authors, editors and any individuals who were in a position to control the content of this CME activity. Any identified relevant conflicts of interest were resolved for fair balance and scientific objectivity of studies utilized in this activity. Oakstone Publishing, LLC's planners, content reviewers, and editorial staff disclose no relevant commercial interests.

    Faculty

    Dave Iverson
    Moderator
    Nothing to disclose

    Chris Hass, PhD
    Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida
    Nothing to disclose

    John Nutt, MD
    Co-founder and Director Emeritus, Oregon Health & Science University Parkinson Center of Oregon and Movement Disorders Program
    Nothing to disclose

    Norma Semling
    Person with Parkinson's
    Nothing to disclose

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